There’s nothing better than a national controversy to get people to notice your music.<\/p>\n
All the screaming about Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is turning it into a huge hit.<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday evening, it was Number One on the iTunes Top Songs and Music Videos charts and has racked up over 3.8 million Spotify streams.<\/p>\n
It was also the Top Trending Video on YouTube when we checked last night.<\/p>\n
Chances are the song would’ve been a hit anyway, but the recent surge is definitely giving it a push, and that’s an opinion shared by Blanco Brown.<\/p>\n
“Aldean’s streams are gonna go through the roof.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Blanco’s post condemned the message, but NOT the messenger.<\/p>\n
“I hate the words to that song, but I don’t believe he’s a racist. [He] was one of the first to check on me in my time of need. Just bad songwriting.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Blanco has since removed that Tweet and replaced it with this.<\/p>\n
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Wednesday’s “CMA Fest” had Jason’s performance of the song, and the reviews were, you guessed it, mixed.<\/p>\n
Some fans called it the “best thing on TV that night” while others said it was a “disgrace” to country music.<\/p>\n
There’s also a spoof making the rounds from Adeem the Artist. It’s called “Sundown Town”, which is a reference to cities or towns back in the day that practiced a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites.<\/p>\n
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